more mandalas from vacation

colors of love

swirling open

memory shield

Star Dancing in Sacred Space

Holding Sacred Space

Painted during  our stay in the Catskills.  Brings me back to the feeling of balance and the Sacredness of life.  If I can only hold on to this………….

Star Dance

During our stay, we  met someone who had a very large telescope/camera.  We had a chance one night to look through it to see a cluster of stars (forgot the name) and then another dying star.. if we came back at 11:30 we could have seen Jupiter.. but I was fast asleep.    It is so amazing, and things fall back into perspective when you can see the immensity of what is out there…. and maybe even not there anymore… I love looking to the stars… astronomically and astrologically    Yes, I think we should all dance with the stars……

Soular I

Soular I

They say the eyes are the window to the soul.  What do you see when you look into my eyes, I wonder?

Can you see where my joys are,  my delights..  Can you see sadness and confusion when my eyes see senseless violence, meaness, disrespectfullness for our Earth?  I want to look away.. but too many eyes do that already.

I want the soul’s energy to come through, soular energy that looks to possibilities, that can see miracles in every blade of grass.. that can see the divine spirit in ALL that is.  That’s what I want my soul to reflect in my eyes. 

In order for that to happen, one must live their own truth, live their life doing that which makes the soul sing!  Do what brings the most happiness… live each day in love.. unconditional love for yourself.  If we all did that,.. if we all lived doing that which brought us the most happiness, then … well, we’d all be happy beings    Om to that!

Find one thing today that will bring the most blissful smile upon your face and keep adding to it.  Let the goodness in your soul shine for all to see.

Choose.

Window of Opportunity

window of opportunity

At the culmination of the full moon, I had to look deeply into my decisions.  Sleepless night, I began to doubt.  Was I making the right decision? Pulled in different directions.. safe, same, secure or something new, refreshing, exciting… with it comes risk.  What if it doesn’t fly?

My validation came on Friday morning.  Without going into detail, my answer came clearly.  How could I have doubted?  When life opens up to you, giving you the opportunity to change, one should heed it’s call…. The window is open, take a chance. 

One needs to take that leap of faith when the window is open, without delay.  For that particular window may not open again… besides, it FEELS good and that’s what matters.

playing catch-up

zendala flight

may add color to it…

mandalas rising

playing around with the bic permanent pens mostly.  I like the colors. some more were added to the other blog http://anartisticyear.blogspot.com/

2 more weeks of camp

Completion

completion

Number 9, the number of completion. 

Fullness, blossomed, ripe

Ready.

From my heart, opened, reaching out

extending to the edge

and then drawing back into myself

all that I receive from you.

Helping me to see the connection

Receiving your light,

your energy,

your blessing…

and feeling  the fullness of it all

ALL.

and now, we step forward once more into this newness,

born again in to this new moment.

Renewed. ♥

A few to catch up…

Tree spirit

I’ve been keeping up with mandalas,  just not posting.  I have a few, but most likely won’t put them all up.  I go back and rework some of them as well.  Keeping up with things has been a bit challenging lately.. but this one, Tree Spirit, has great sentiment for me.  I love trees and get very upset when they are needlessly removed as I’m sure so many of you are… no go thank a tree and give it a hug for all it does for us.

Tilt

While doing this one above, “tilt” kept coming to mind as well as the idea of swimming upstream.. and well, it ’s all perspective now, isn’t it…so if I just tilt it a bit, it’s balanced and if I tilt it a little more… well, then I can go downstream … go with the flow.

seed dreams

I have been painting chairs for a client.  The theme for this particular chair was fruits and I added some seeds to it… so seeds were on my mind, I guess.   Planting the seeds of our dreams, watching them take root, nurturing them with love and passion.    If you would like to take a look at a wonderful video on mandalas, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0S1448lB-4  and thanks to Sue for sharing it.

Living on the edge

living on the edge

I was reading Osho on Creativity and I was inspired by his words.  We tend to live on the circumference of life.  The outside edge where we look to others for approval, acknowledgement, recognition.. an affirmation on who we are.  Why do we keep forgetting ?

We live outside along the circumference where it is busy. work, family, responsibilities an obligations, out there among the chaos and noise of doing life.   Who we really are is in the center, where the seed is.  It’s that private self, free of restraints, and no one judges… FREE to be as we truly are.  Our true spiritual Self… that is what we need to bring out there more often.  Making sure we don’t mistake the outside for the inside.. bottom line… it’s that ego that seems to create the problem.

That ego loves to be stroked by out there.  Wants to be validated.  It has it’s place, otherwise why would we have it but it sure gets in the way sometimes…… Prevents me from getting my true work done.

So I continually come back to center.  Am reminded over and over again of who I really am. Who WE really are.  When I can stop and not judge you and you stop judging me and we come together into a wonderful state of knowing … Namaste’.. When the divine in me meets the divine in you and we become one.  The wave blends into the ocean……

Each individual seed blossoms and becomes a garden of magnificent beauty.  Our garden of Eden.

Namaste’

Happy Solstice :-)

Solstice

This is from Sunday.. Happy Solstice.  I did manage to get s bit of sunshine in the early afternoon.  And then the rains came.  We sure have been having a heck of a lot of rain!!!!

Sue from the Mandala Oasis group is having a mandala give-away.  She does some amazing digital mandalas using nature. go here to join in on the party…. oh, and make sure you check out her doodle page as well.

catching up

eye spy

From June 16..   Eye spy a patchwork sky…. one that most likely will get colored in.

growing love

 

growing love..another that may be colored.. This one is from the 15th. and now to scan and upload….